So far, the Affordable Care Act and its mandate for insurance coverage has been a disaster. It isn't just that the website doesn't work, it's that the bulk of the people signing up for the program…

There is a looming drug crisis approaching and the results of a new paper about the FDA understanding of clinical trials is only going to make it worse. Right now, the private sector conducts drug…

Conservationists and animal activists have created a mythology that poaching is mostly illegal hunting for trophies or something like ivory for decoration. It's not the case at all, and that…

A new paper claims that exposure to secondhand smoke at home or in the car increases the odds of children being readmitted to the hospital within a year of being admitted for asthma. It seems like…

In the introduction to Science Left Behind, I wrote about a bizarre effort by MoveOn.org-sponsored (think Tea Party, but of the left) progressives who helped gain control of Congress in the 2006…

If we want to protect the health of women, government policies should require that both parents take maternity leave, says social epidemiologist Dr. Patricia O'Campo, director of the Centre for…

There are lots of female scientists in America, women get more Ph.D.s than men, yet in academia they also tend to leave more often because, the claim goes, academia lacks the potential for…

Chronic unemployment, dependence on government welfare and internal social division are the result of Canadian social welfare for natives - despite the substantial resources devoted, according to a…

Bullying has become a frequently discussed problem but most of the stories involve young people. Less discussed is its prevalence in academia but a Rutgers–Camden nursing scholar is shedding some…

An interdisciplinary group has called on scholars, government granting agencies, journal editors and reviewers to adopt stringent and transparent standards in order to give social science research…